The Essential instability of self-deception

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Essential instability of self-deception

AU - Noordhof, Paul Jonathan Pitt

PY - 2009/1

Y1 - 2009/1

N2 - In this article, the author characterizes the instability and the essential work of characterizing self-deception. He provides a number of advantages of the approach, including unity where other accounts of unity fail. He also explains the view that self-deception as a kind of theoretical irrationality. He notes that self-deception is often contrasted with wishful thinking and full-blown delusion. The author also explains how appeal to the essential instability of self-deception in attentive consciousness can provide this unity.

AB - In this article, the author characterizes the instability and the essential work of characterizing self-deception. He provides a number of advantages of the approach, including unity where other accounts of unity fail. He also explains the view that self-deception as a kind of theoretical irrationality. He notes that self-deception is often contrasted with wishful thinking and full-blown delusion. The author also explains how appeal to the essential instability of self-deception in attentive consciousness can provide this unity.

M3 - Special issue

SN - 0037-802X

VL - 35

SP - 45

EP - 71

JO - Social Theory and Practice

JF - Social Theory and Practice

IS - 1

ER -